Bokashi is made from Terra Biosa™ and bran or other material such as coffee or rice husks. When spread over kitchen scraps in a sealed bucket, the microbes it contains ferments the waste rather than decomposing them, hence the lack of any rotting smell. This is ideal for use in urban settings. When dug into the soil, emptied into a compost bin or large planter, the fermented food wastes break down faster than traditional composting and the material gives a slow release of nutrients and continues to inoculate the soil and surrounding plants.

Great Day Bokashi

If you have….

Tried worm farms without success
Had enough of foul odors
No room for a large compost bin

Using an organic fermentation process, the Great Day Bokashi Bucket recycles ALL your domestic kitchen waste into valuable soil conditioner.

NO WASTE
NO SMELL
NO INSECTS or RODENTS
NO SPOILING
NO MORE DAILY TRIPS TO THE COMPOST BIN

The composting of kitchen organics is done in an air tight container using Bokashi as an inoculant or compost starter. Bokashi is a Japanese term that means fermented organic matter. It is a bran based material that has been fermented with Terra Biosa™ – an Friendly Microorganisms liquid concentrate – and dried for storage.

Bokashi is a pleasant smelling product which you add to your bucket and which aids in the fermentation of the organic matter. The food waste will not breakdown or decompose into “black gold” inside the bucket. Putting the fermented food waste into the ground, compost bin or large planter is required to complete the process. Always store Great Day Bokashi in a warm dry place out of direct sunlight. A kitchen cupboard is ideal.

How does it work ?

Place your kitchen waste in the bucket, sprinkle a small amount of the mixture over the waste slightly compress and reseal the container. The beneficial microbes immediately go to work to ferment the food scraps, releasing valuable nutrients and enzymes, without the problems of odour, heat or insects. The organic material does not breakdown, it pickles.

Use approximately one handful of Bokashi to every 3–4 cm of food.

Repeat this layering process until the bucket is full, then top up with a generous coat of Bokashi.

After fermenting for 10-14 days in the sealed bucket, the waste can then be added to an existing compost pile, or even better, buried directly in your garden. After 2 – 4 weeks, the waste will have broken down into rich, nutritious soil conditioner which you can plant on top of or spread around the rest of the garden.

Like the idea, but don’t have a place to put your bokashi when ready? Call or email me.

Item #2 – I spread some Bokashi Bucket material on a raised bed and covered it with some grass and straw. I also left a small area exposed to the outside. One expects wasps and flies to come and feed on mass quantities of organic matter. None came. Smell? Nothing offensive. There were a lot of onions and oranges, so it smelled like onions and oranges.

Great Day Bokashi also makes a great odor reducer for cat litter boxes!!

However, customers in the U.S.A. can use the diluted liquid and/or learn to make your own Bokashi with Terra Biosa™ available from our U.S. office.

As much as possible, I provide plastic buckets that are previously owned from a foodsafe purpose which helps the environment even more. If you know of place that has buckets that they would be throwing away, I will pick them up.

Great Day Bokashi Composting can be adapted for use in larger facilities including:

If you want to grow food successfully in containers, nurturing soil life can make a huge difference. Worm compost, for example, is full of microbes and life. Add it to your containers and you will get more vigorous growth, and far fewer pest and disease problems. Discovering this, was the biggest turning point in my growing (more important, even, than self watering containers), transforming sporadic successes into something more consistent.

Why is soil life important?

Healthy organic soil in the natural world supports a web of life including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes as well as larger creatures like worms and slugs. These organisms play a vital role in the life of plants. They break down organic matter to make the nutrients available for plant roots. They condition the soil and create air spaces and tunnels in it – improving aeration and drainage. And they compete with other more harmful organisms in the soil, ones that will damage your plants if left unchecked.

Soil life is complex – so the above is just my attempt to summarise some of the main benefits you can expect when you add life to your containers!

Why do you need to add life to containers?

Most commercial composts that we buy are sterilised and low in microbial life. So is municipal compost (it has to be made at hot temperatures to kill pathogens, killing much of the beneficial life, too). So if you want life in your containers – and to mimic soil in the natural world – you need to add it.

1. Worm compost

2. Homemade compost

3. Leaf mould

4. Manure

5. Bokashi

Bokashi is Japanese method of composting food quickly in a tightly sealed bucket. Benefits of bokashi are that you can add almost any food (even meat), it works quickly, can be done in a very small space, and doesn’t smell (much). The drawbacks are that you need to buy bokashi bran for it to work, and the pickled product is not as versatile as worm compost. But you can add it to the bottom of containers to add both organic matter and microorganisms.

Mix about 10 – 20% into the compost in the bottom third of a container.